OK, I want to sincere ansnwer to this next question please. Not a selling speech:
Has any of you people who used XP ever come upon an application that would not work properly under XP? I say that cause even MS say that there might be some applications that won't work.
Is the need for a dual boot completly away?

When I was trying out wallpaper managers, I found a couple that didn't play well, but since I hadn't tried them on any other OS, I can't really pin the blame on WXP. Same with a couple screen savers I've tried that didn't work. Caesar FTP server is another example that was flakey, but I'd never used it before (and it was before I knew about the compatibility mode, so that may have fixed it).

As far as important stuff, and applications in general that I was using on W2K, I can't think of anything that has failed to work. Well, except DirectCD, which I didn't even bother trying, because I already knew it had issues. The only problems I've had is when trying new (to me) stuff, which makes it hard to determine if it's WXP-related.

In short, other than DirectCD (which I didn't use much anyway, because it's inherently buggy), I'm basically using the same stuff I did in W2K, plus a whole lot more. I haven't had to give up anything.

Is that a selling speech?

Hehehe! No, that seemed genuine. Thank you.
So if I can indeed get XP on my new system I'll ask for it. If I don't like it I can always revert back to 2k.

Just turned on ClearType for the first time. Wow! What a difference! Looks almost like a I got a new monitor.